CORAL ROOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coral root mean? 

• CORAL ROOT (noun)
  The noun CORAL ROOT has 1 sense:

1. a wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in absorbing nutrients from the forest floor

  Familiarity information: CORAL ROOT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORAL ROOT (noun)

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Meaning:

A wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in absorbing nutrients from the forest floor

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("coral root" is a kind of...):

orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coral root"):

Corallorhiza maculata; spotted coral root (common coral root having yellowish- or reddish- or purplish-brown leafless stems bearing loose racemes of similarly colored flowers with white purple-spotted lips; Guatemala to Canada)

Corallorhiza striata; striped coral root (nearly leafless wildflower with erect reddish-purple stems bearing racemes of pale pinkish and brownish-striped flowers; western Canada to Mexico)

Corallorhiza trifida; early coral root; pale coral root (plant having clumps of nearly leafless pale yellowish to greenish stems bearing similarly colored flowers with white lower lips; northern New Mexico north through South Dakota and Washington to Alaska)

Holonyms ("coral root" is a member of...):

Corallorhiza; genus Corallorhiza (genus of leafless root-parasitic orchids having small purplish or yellowish racemose flowers with lobed lips; widely distributed in temperate regions)